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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *weidwūs, from *weyd- (“to know”) + *-wōs (stative participle suffix). The n-stem inflection is secondary.[1]
Noun
fíadu m
- witness
Inflection
Mutation
Mutation of fíadu
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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fíadu
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ḟíadu
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fíadu pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of N-stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 115
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